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My first broadcast was in February 1959 from the Plaza,
Birkenhead as the week's guest organist on Sam Costa's Lunchtime programme
on B.B.C. Radio Two.
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It is over forty years since I
first started as organist/ musical director at the Floral
Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, Merseyside where I have accompanied
several well-known stars, who include -
Vince Hill, Dick Emery, Nat Gonella, Ken Platt, Hylda
Baker, Frank Carson, Frankie
Howerd, Adelaide Hall, Bob Monkhouse, John
Hanson, Clinton Ford, Al Read, Tommy Trinder, Sandy
Powell, Percy Edwards, Lester Furguson, Cavan
O’Connor, Ruby Murray, Bert Weedon, Tom
O’Connor, Chic Murray, Ben Warriss, Roy
Walker, Bernard Manning, Billy Dainty, Walter Landaur, Stan
Boardman, Ken Goodwin, Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson, Ray Allan & Lord
Charles, Reg [Confidentially] Dixon, Terry Hall & Lenny
the Lion
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James Finnegan Hall, Eston
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Organist for Bedford Cinemas, Liverpool
1963-1973
Plaza, Birkenhead and Mayfair, Liverpool
BBC Radio Broadcasts from:
The Plaza, Birkenhead; Marston Green, Birmingham; The Granada, Kingston-on-Thames;
The BBC Theatre Organ; Astra, Llandudno also on Gulbransen Rialto Two
Electronic.
Musical Director for:
Summer Revue; Variety; Old Tyme Music Hall; Pantomime.
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City School, Sheffield
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Theatre Organ Concerts at:
Odeon Leicester Square, London; Castle Hill, Ipswich; Marston Green,
Birmingham; Arthur Russell Studios, Malvern; Pavilion, Bath; Gaumont, Hanley;
Paramont Organ Studios, Bolton; Odeon, Manchester; Astra, Llandudno; Dale
Hall, Hampthswaite; Plaza, Birkenhead; Mayfair, Liverpool; Free Trade Hall,
Manchester; West View, Gomersal; Cecil Theatre, Hull; ABC, Chester; ABC,
Wythenshawe; Miners’ Institute, Harworth; James Finegan Hall, Eston; Odeon,
Southport; Town Hall, Ossett; Town Hall, Burton on Trent; Eddysons Leisure
Complex, Barrow in Furness; Davenport, Stockport; Scala, Rotherham;
Concert-en Gehoorzal, Middelburg, Netherlands; Plaza, Stockport; Cameo
Theatre, Ventnor, I.O.W.; Tuchinski-Theatre, Amsterdam; Gaumont, Dingle,
Liverpool; Odeon, Crosby, Liverpool; Prinses Beatrixlaan, Voorburg,
Netherlands; Regal, Oswestry; Town Hall, Louth; Kinema-in-the-Woods, Woodhall
Spa; The Memorial Hall, Old Windsor; The Music Museum, St. Albans; the City
School, Sheffield; Fentham Hall, Hampton-in-Arden.
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